BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 1 Survey administration On February 9th of 2018, GSU sent out a bargaining priorities survey to assess the working conditions and priorities of graduate student employees at the University of Chicago. The survey closed on March 2nd. This survey was sent to any members of the bargaining unit who provided a non-institutional email address via a Google form. This included any GSU members and non-members. Every effort was made to provide the Google form to the broadest possible population of student employees. Student status was confirmed by netID, and the survey was sent via an individualized link to ensure one response per individual. All respondents gave informed consent prior to participation. The survey was administered via the Qualtrics platform. Privacy & security Responses were anonymized and stored securely; only the survey analysis team and select members of the bargaining committee had access to these anonymous individual responses. A link between the anonymized information and the identity of respondents was stored separately and could be accessed only by a subset of the survey analysis team. If the survey analysis team wished to quote any text response in a public report, they used this link to contact the individual for permission, as per the informed consent statement. Analysis methods Our survey analysis team analyzed the quantitative data using custom written scripts in Python and R. Free response questions were scored using standard methods for qualitative data: first, the scorer read through all responses and identified central recurring themes. Then, the scorer assessed each response for the presence of these themes. Free responses that represented especially prominent themes were identified for possible inclusion in the report, and the respondents contacted for permission. Survey participant population

451 Started the survey

367 Finished the survey

85% GSU members

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 2 The survey gathered information about demographics and asked questions about the following topics :

SURVEY TOPICS

Employment, Pay and Fees

Work Hours

Paid Time Off

Safety and Workers Comp

Healthcare

Childcare

International Student Experience

Taxes and Retirement

Housing

Demeaning Treatment

Climate and Discrimination

Disability Our survey determined graduate workers at the University of Chicago identified the following areas as in need of substantial improvement. Below is a summary of our findings.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 3

PAY AND FEES

Income by years in graduate program

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 4

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 5

43.5% of respondents reported issues related to their pay.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 6

30.7% of respondents said they had done work off the clock to avoid incurring overtime

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 7

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 8

HOUSING

59.9% of respondents consider their current housing costs to be affordable. 44.1% have changed their living situation due to cost.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 9

HEALTHCARE 86.6% of survey respondents used USHIP as their health insurance plan. 5% are on their parents’ insurance plan. 3.1% are on a spouse’s or partner’s plan.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 10

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 11

66.4% of respondents did not have dental insurance. 88.8% of respondents without dental cited cost as the reason they lack coverage. 78.4% of respondents did not have vision insurance. 66.3% of respondents without vision insurance cited cost as the reason they lack coverage. 34.7% of respondents without vision insurance stated they did not need it.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 12

CharityCare is financial assistance for patients with demonstrated financial need who have insufficient insurance coverage. The survey demonstrates that University of Chicago graduate students are qualifying for CharityCare to cover medical expenses.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 13

SAFETY

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 14

5.2% of respondents reported that they had suffered a work-related injury as a graduate student employee at the University of Chicago.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 15

DEMEANING TREATMENT AND DISCRIMINATION 28.5% of respondents reported that they have experienced demeaning treatment from someone else at the University.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 16

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 17

Reasons for dissatisfaction with the University’s response to the incident you reported:

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 18

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 19

On University diversity initiatives: how much do you agree or disagree with the following?

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 20

DISABILITY

5.2% of respondents identified as disabled or a person with a disability.

BARGAINING SURVEY REPORT SPRING 2018 PAGE 21

PARENTING AND CHILDCARE 6.5% of respondents were parents.

79.2% of parents had applied for the University child care subsidy of $500 per quarter.